American Idol—Put Your Pants on the Ground!

Auditions headed south to Atlanta last night with R&B star Mary J. Blige joining the judges—and sometimes laughing out loud at a few terrible singers. I can understand why because once again we had a mixed bag of hot…and not.

Among the standouts:

Jermaine Sellers, whose gospel background served him very, very well last night. The judges loved him and so did I.

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Vanessa Wolfe, the small town girl with a pretty decent country-music voice.

Holly Harden, aka "guitar girl." Despite the gimmick she made it through to Hollywood.

Mallory Haley, the country singer with tons of charm and lots of talent.

Bryan Walker, the singing police officer who did a "fake out," as Randy called it, on the judges. That soulful voice coming from him? Who'd have guessed? I loved his take on "Superstar."

At the bottom of the barrel:

Dewone Robinson, who claimed to be a diamond in the rough. It was his singing that was rough…to take.

Jessie Hamilton, the welder who fancied himself a country singer. Guess it depends on the country.

Lamar Royal, the angriest singer I've ever seen. His harsh, practically-yelling rendition of "Kiss From a Rose" would scare a woman, not woo her.

The "wacky" award goes to: It's a tie between guitar girl Holly and Antonio "Skii Bo Ski" Wheeler, who came off like a goof, but backed it up with a voice.

And the real star of the night: 62-year-old Larry Platt, whose high-energy performance of his original song, "Pants on the Ground," stole the show. How much fun was he? Word is, the YouTube clip of it has already gone viral. Let's all sing along: Pants on the ground, pants on the ground. Looking like a fool with your pants on the ground. Like Simon said, I smell a hit. —Angela Ebron

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